Christopher Fung :: Field Trips

The purpose of the fieldtrips is to give students an appreciation for different perspectives on landscape and people’s relationship with land. While many people view land as a passive object that is the background to daily life, we ask students to experience situations where people are actively involved with particular places for spiritual, cultural and economic reasons. In particular, we educate students about the traditional Hawaiian perspective on land by visiting modern Hawaiian community groups who are putting these ideas into practice within the context of life on O`ahu in the 21st century.